Five ships laden with petrol and diesel have arrived Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos waiting to berth at the oil terminals. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) stated this in its daily publication `Shipping Position’ made available to newsmen in Lagos. The document indicated that three other ships with frozen fish and bulk rice had also arrived and waiting to berth. NPA stated that 35 ships were expected to sail into the ports from July 6 to July 18. According to the document, the contents of the expected ships are containers, general cargo, buckwheat, frozen fish, crude palm oil, bulk sugar, bulk salt. It stated that other expected ships contained used vehicles, kerosene and diesel. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 20 other ships are in the ports discharging buckwheat, bulk soya, steel products, gypsum, general cargo, bulk bauxite, bulk urea, bulk rice, containers. The document also indicated that the ships were discharging kerosene, diesel, petrol, aviation fuel and base oil.
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